[jokosher-devel] SVG vs. PNG loading on startup

["Adriaan Leijnse" <lordmyth gmail com>]

doesn't imagemagick do it?
we could just steal some sourcecode from it.

Aidy
2006/8/31, Stuart Langridge <sil kryogenix org>:
> > I was thinking that the PNGs could be created using make at install
> > time, however I created then using Inkscape's command line export
> > feature and I'm sure not everyone will have Inkscape installed.
>
> I'd suggest that they're created during the package build process; I
> still think we should avoid having downloaders run "make" or similar
> before Jokosher will work. People checking out directly should
> probably be using the SVGs anyway so that changes are immediately
> apparent. Inkscape can't be a build dependency, true, but it should be
> pretty easy for someone to write something that uses librsvg to render
> to a PNG (there are Python bindings at
> http://www.rittau.org/blog/20060414-00, or a tiny tiny C program will
> do it).
>
> > The icons should still be developed in SVG format and kept this way in
> > the Jokosher art module, however unless SVG has some other advantages
> > that out way this increase in speed, I think we should have only PNGs in
> > the Instruments/images folder.
>
> I think Jokosher should try and load an svg first and then fail to a
> PNG, so it can cope with both, but I agree that packages in distros
> should probably just ship PNGs.
>
> --
> sil
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